The Sumaúma Pledging Tree for Human Rights-Based Climate Action is a new initiative that encourages governments, organisations and other stakeholders to make meaningful commitments that place human rights at the centre of climate action.

Our physicists are part of one of the most ambitious studies of the Universe ever undertaken.

Researchers from our School of Education are part of a new €4.4 million project aimed at improving the mental health of young people across Europe.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences was delighted to welcome Professor Don Zagier (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste) for the 2025/26 Collingwood Lecture, held on 11 June 2026.

Our research is advancing understanding of the Arctic, and how we might better protect this crucial part of our planet.

Professor Thom Brooks, from our Law School, has given evidence to The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee, as part of its Settlement, Citizenship and Integration inquiry.

Archaeologists are shedding fresh light on the origins of infant remains held in anatomical museums, revealing a troubling history of stigma, inequality and eugenic thinking. 

Colleagues from Durham University and Kyushu University have reaffirmed their shared commitment to international collaboration in the humanities following a workshop in Japan exploring the future role of the humanities in research, teaching, and public life.

We’re part of a major international mission to better understand how the ocean is responding to climate change.

For many women, childbirth is transformative. For Dr Erin Maglaque from our Department of History, it also sparked an exploration into how history has shaped understanding, expectation and perceptions of the female body.

Durham University Business School is celebrating Durham University’s rise to 85th in the QS World University Rankings 2027. The University has climbed nine places, strengthening its position among the world’s top institutions.

Scientists say the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc), a crucial circulation of water that helps to keep northern Europe warm, is weakening, but it struggles to make the headlines. Dr Fionagh Thomson, a Visiting Research Fellow in our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and Institute for Computational Cosmology, looks at Amoc’s image problem.